Lets Hope That The Coronation Of Hillary Continues

BILL PRESS: CLINTON 'COULD STUMBLE BADLY AS CANDIDATE'

'Clearing the field for Hillary is the worst mistake the Democratic Party could make'

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WND columnist Bill Press for 25 years has been a major player in Democrat politics, and has a record of support for the party’s policies that runs both long and deep.

Besides being an award-winning radio talk show host, he was chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996.

He served as chief of staff to California state Sen. Peter Behr, and directed the California Office of Planning and Research under Gov. Jerry Brown.

He was himself a candidate in the Democratic primary for California state insurance commissioner in 1990.

Now he’s writing that he’s worried about the party handing its 2016 presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton.

“Clearing the field for Hillary is the worst mistake the Democratic Party could make,” he wrote in his most recent column. “After all, she needs the challenge of a primary, and she could stumble badly as a candidate. It’s happened before.”

Read Bill Press in “Stop the Hillary Coronation.”

The Washington Speakers Bureau documents his long and successful career, creating a nationally syndicated radio show each weekday, attending daily White House briefings as part of the White House Press Corps, a syndicated column and more.

He teamed with Pat Buchanan on the MSNBC Buchanan and Press debate program and has written multiple books, such as “Spin This!” and “Bush Must Go: The Top Ten Reasons Why George Bush Doesn’t Deserve A Second Term.”

Another biography explains his weekly commentary is “liberal,” and he was named the Associated Press Best Commentator of the Year in 1992.

But Press now has written about the “Peanuts” comics.

There were characters beyond Charlie Brown, including Pig-Pen, he noted.

“Sometimes, it seems, Bill and Hillary Clinton have a Pig-Pen problem: Trouble follows them wherever they go. They’ve survived a long string of scandals, some real and some manufactured: Whitewater, the Lincoln Bedroom, Vincent Foster, Monica Lewinsky, Marc Rich, Benghazi, foreign government contributions. And now they’ve got a new one: Emailgate.”

He noted “Hillary haters” quickly made accusations of improper activity, but, “the facts say otherwise.”

He said the scandal over her use of a private email server in her own home, rather than a government process, isn’t “politically fatal. Far from it. She and her husband has survived far bigger scandals.”

What it did, he wrote, was provide “ammunition for the Clinton hate machine.”

But he wrote there is a lesson to be learned “and it’s this: Stop the coronation! Instead of just assuming that Hillary will be the Democratic nominee, party leaders should be actively recruiting Democrats to run in 2016: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Jerry Brown, Martin O’Malley, Andrew Cuomo, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand and others.”

“And I say that as one who loves Hillary Clinton. I want her to be president. I think she’d make a great president. But the way to get there is not to hand her the nomination. It’s to make her fight for it and prove herself in a hotly contested primary,” he wrote.

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